Tadhg and Sárán Mulligan, "The Fermoy Lasses/The London Lasses/The Rose in the Garden" // GemsOnVHS™
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ธ.ค. 2022
- Back in Dundalk, Ireland, I was riding around in The Mary Walloper's "scooby doo"-esque mystery mobile (the one with the backseat that wasn't bolted down) on the way to the pub when we had to make a stop to pick someone up. The fellow who came out the flat that day looked a bit like a mad scientist, or an unemployed professor. Dark red hair disheveled in all directions, wearing slacks, loafers and a sharp dress shirt, instrument in tow, it was none other than Tadhg Mulligan. If you don't know how to pronounce that name, don't worry, it took me a long time too.
Tadhg comes from a musical lineage - his family runs the world famous Cobblestone, and anyone who professed a relation to him knows how to play something, and i've now met quite a few of them. Tadhg seems to have a supernatural affinity for anything he picked up in front of me; uilleann pipes, bouzouki, fiddle, whatever he picked up became a centerpiece to a jam, notes flying in as many far flung directions as his wild hair.
One anecdote I can tell about Tadhg goes like this; the Wallopers had brought me to a house party, a going away celebration for a friend who was moving to London. We stayed up the entire night, everyone playing music, drinking, laughing and having a good time, Tadhg amongst them. When we left (at 4 in the morning), Tadhg was still playing. When I woke up sometime later that afternoon, the Walloper boys brought me to another pub. The moment I walked in, I was greeted by Tadhg, having not slept at all, still playing his fiddle. That sums up the indominable spirit of the man perfectly. That night explained to me his zest for life and song was the product of surviving a bout of lukemia. It checks out; i've met only few in life with as big a lust for life, for a good time and a good pint. What I especially loved is music isn't even his full time job - he works in some kind of actual labratory as a chemist.
Sárán, his brother, i'd only met this particular night, but together they made the kind of music only brothers, siblings, or lifelong companions can. Effortless, without distraction or worry. Pure joy flowing from years, decades and centuries of song. Stick around to the end to hear a few random words of the Irish language by a fellow.
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You’re a saint ol son
Ireland is the most wonderful musical mecca in the world. So happy to call this place my home.
So wonderful to see such organic playing and Irish being spoken
*in reference to Sárán using a fada (the á)*
Man: you've a bit of Irish then?
Sárán: a bit, a bit
*bit of English*
Sárán: where are you from?
Then they all use "tá mé i mo chónaí" which means "i live in" but is often used for "I'm from"
He says he's from and mullach bán or mullaghbawn which means the white hilltop and is a place in northern Ireland
Thank you for the translation. I thought that was such a neat little exchange with a complete stranger. Music brings people together like that.
@@GemsOnVHS i coulda kept listening to that. I need to know more about Mick Quinn
@@GemsOnVHS no bother! It's a beautiful language... Sárán is also a unique name, never heard that before
Ireland truely is another country with its own language ain't it. Despite anyone's opinion on the whole "uk" thing it feels and sound so foreign to me😅 there's some English accents and slang I don't get but Irish is just in a league of its own and find it so fascinating😁
Put it on loop and me in a box. I'm set.
Fabulous music….. no better on earth, and I’m a Scot, very touchy about my country’s music - but Irish traditional is by far the finest.
Is this Adam Friedland of The Adam Friedland Show fame?
Sawing us a diddle?
I love it.
Out here doing the lord's work
So heartening to hear Irish spoken
Absolutely Fantastic!!! These lads aught to come to Idaho's Ol' Timey Fiddler's Festival. They would steal the show!
Sounds like more than 2 players, class how they back themselves
These guys are great.
my favourite gems video
Savage. Can't believe I'm seeing trad on this channel, what a treat
Oh wow! This is just incredible 😍
This needs more views
true, give it a share for us. ty
Love it, class video 🤩🤩
Great stuff
this is sick
damn good
Giggity
Joel and Ethan Coen
SO much talent, classicla music is garbage for elites,. real music still much creative and alive with the same level of virtuosity and effort and love
Are these Irish standards?
Everyone that can play knows the Fermoy lasses. London lasses is exceptionally common too. The last one I don't hear as much around. I play it myself a good bit (although I didn't know the name of it until this vid)
There's no real set of standards as they are always changing. Tunes fall in and out of fashion. The music is too diverse. You have sets of reels like cooleys/wise maid that are somewhat standard but nobody that's any good likes playing them unless heavily altered to make it interesting because they were so overplayed in the past.
You could learn the 100 most well known tunes and wouldn't hear one of them in sessions.